I’ve posted a lot of sad news lately, mostly due a whole lot of people dying – including a couple in my own family. But tonight I refuse to be sad, so here’s some happy news….. After almost a year of being ruled by a conservatorship with her father Jamie at the helm, Britney Spears could very well become a free woman in November. Coincidentally, that’s around the same time Britney’s Circus tour will be ending. It is being reported that Britney’s...  Read More »

An eclipse is coming! An eclipse is coming! Too bad basically half the world won’t be able to see it. Unless they watch a solar eclipse 2009 live webcast, that is. The total solar eclipse of the Sun on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, will be the longest total solar eclipse in the 21st century, with the disappearance of the Sun when totally covered by moon can last up to a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with most area averaging 6 minutes of solar eclipse....  Read More »

Leaving American Idol, silly, not the Psych ward – Paula Abdul will never leave kooky town. Paula Abdul’s new manager David Sonenberg says the American Idol judge is not happy with the way things are going and she just might not be back next season. “Very sadly, it does not appear that she’s going to be back on Idol, I find it under these circumstances particularly unusual; I think unnecessarily hurtful. I find it kind of unconscionable and certainly...  Read More »

Thanks to everyone to voted for my sister’s friend Jason Lester as Best Male Athlete with a Disability for this year’s ESPY Awards. Side note: ESPY stands for “Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly” Jason asked my sister to ask me to post the following article, and of course I said yes. It’s sort of neat to know that my blog brought in some voters to help Jason win. Jason Lester ESPY upset winner Written by: Timothy Carlson Date: Thu Jul 16...  Read More »

“He was the most important voice in our lives for thirty years. And that voice made people reach for the stars. I hate the world without Walter Cronkite.” – George Clooney Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in the world” died at his New York home today at the age of 92; no official cause of death was given, but Cronkite has been in failing health for a while. “My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said Friday night. CBS interrupted...  Read More »

On this day in 1988, actor Michael J. Fox and actress Tracy Pollan exchanged vows under a tent in a very private ceremony at the West Mountain Inn wooded hillside in Arlington, Vermont. In his autobiography Lucky Me: A Memoir, Michael J. Fox says about the wedding: “… it was a great wedding, a tremendous success … we paid for our privacy in the coin of bad press … It was a price well worth paying because it enabled us in a single moment...  Read More »

I’ve been doing this blog for a little over three years now, and in that time the one thing that I’ve learned to be an absolute truth, is that no matter what you say about Michael Jackson, someone somewhere will be offended and swear you to Hell. If I had a dollar for every time a Michael Jackson fan when loco on me for saying something about their beloved MJ, I’d be able to afford a nice long vacation. Don’t get me wrong, I totally get why there are...  Read More »